vxd deviceiocontrol hmm

[Eric Pouech]

Juan Lang wrote:
> Folks, I'm looking for advice on implementing
> DeviceIoControl for vnetbios.  It's pretty simple,
> lpvInBuffer is a pointer to an NCB, the only parameter
> to Netbios().
> 
> Trouble is, I implemented Netbios() with some state,
> all maintained in netapi32.dll.  I need to load
> netapi32.dll, and keep it open as long as the handle
> to vnetbios is open (if I close netapi32, the state is
> lost).
> 
> I could:
> - use a static HANDLE to netapi32.dll in kernel
> - store the handle in the server
> - move all the netbios code to kernel, and use
> DeviceIoControl to call it from netapi32
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions or preferences?  Thanks,
> --Juan
why don't you, in kernel/device.c, the first time DeviceIoControl is 
called upon vnetbios load netapi32 (or at each call to this VxD ensure 
that netapi32 is loaded)
this will keep netapi32 in memory (from kernel32), and don't bother 
closing it.

A+

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Eric Pouech